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Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> writes:
> guile-2.0.9's compiler has some inconvenient restrictions, relative to
> its interpreter. Where the compiler is automatically applied to scripts,
> the restrictions aren't a serious problem, because if compilation fails
> then guile falls back to interpreting the script. But in an interactive
> REPL session, by default each form entered by the user is passed through
> the compiler, and if compilation fails then the error is signalled,
> with no fallback to interpretation.
>
> As a test case, consider a form in which a procedure object appears.
> The compiler can't handle forms that directly reference a wide variety of
> object types, including procedures (both primitive and user-defined) and
> GOOPS objects. In the interpreter these objects simply self-evaluate,
> and it can be useful to reference them without the usual indirection
> through a named variable.
Scheme does not allow arbitrary user objects to be embedded directly
into the source code. It worked by accident in Guile 1.8, but in a
system with ahead-of-time compilation to object files, which requires
that all code and literals be serialized, there's no sane way to support
the semantics you seem to want.
Regards,
Mark
